Lantern



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No. 353,573. Patented Nov. 30, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

FERDINAND MEYROSE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,573, dated November 30, 1886.

Appli-ation filed June 28, 1886. Serial No. 206,412.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that; l, FERDINAND MERosE, of the city ot' St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lanterns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure lis a side elevation of a lantern with my improvement applied, showing the lower part of the globe and the globe disk or plate in section. Fig. 2 is a similar view to Fig. 1, showing the globe in its upper position,or position for lighting the lantern. Fig. 3 is a side view of the cap and its supporting-tube, showing the cap in its lower or using position. Fig. 4 is a similar View with the cap in its upper position,or the position it occupies when the globe is raised to light the lantern. Figs. 5 and 6 are transverse sections taken respectively on lines 5 5 and 6 6, Figs. 3 and 4.

My invention is an improvement in those lanterns in which the globe is seated on a spring around the cone of the burner and is held down to its seat by means of a spring catch.

My improvement consists in certain details of construction, hereinafter described, and point-ed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the fount or reservoir of the lantern; B, the airtube; C, the cap; D, the tube that supports the cap, and upon which the cap has vertical movement; E, the globe; F, the disk or plate, upon which the globe is seated, and G the burner-cone. All of these parts may be of any suitable construction.

The cap C is made fast to the upper part of the globe by any suitable means, and I have shown it connected thereto by means of wire arms C', in which, per se, I claim no invention in this case.

Located between the disk or plate F and the burnercone G of the lantern is a coiled approximately cylindrical spring, H. The lower end of the spring is secured to the shoulder G,on which the spring seats,and the spring surrounds and lits snugly against the annular flange F of the disk around the cone-opening, and has its upper end secured in the vicinity of the ilange. The action of this spring (when (No model.)

the globe is released) is, as usual, to force the globe from the position shown in Fig. l to the position shown in Fig. 2, to permit the lan; tern to be lighted. As the globe rises the cap O slides upon the tube D from the position shown in Figs. l and 3 to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

The globe is held in its lower or using position against the pressure of the spring 1I by means of a suitable catch. I have shown a catch consisting of an arm, I, secured to the cap, and provided with a shoulder, J, over which ts or bears (when the globe is in its lower position) a spring-plate, L, having an outturned end, L,lapping around the tube D, one end of the plate being secured to the tube D, and the other endof the plate being held from moving outward too far from the tube by the arm I, which is braced by astaple or keeper, M. By pressing inward upon the outer end, L', of the plate L the pla-te is disengaged from the shoulder J of the arm I, and the spring H will then move the globe up from the burner, as shown in Fig. 2.

Vhen the lantern is lighted, 'the globe is forced down to its using position, when the plate L will spring out, engaging over the shoulder J of the arm I, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, thus holding the globe down in its using position. The globe may forced down by downward pressure upon it, or upon the cap, or it may be forced down by pressure upon the upper end of the arm I, and to afford an easy means of forcing it down by pressing on the arm I have provided the upper end of the arm with a head, l. It will now be understood that when the plate L ispressed in (disengaging it from the shoulder J) thespring H will automatically lift the globe, and when the lantern is lighted Athe globe can be depressed or forced down to its using position, when the spring will be compressed and held between the disk Fand burner-cone G, as shown in Fig. l, this spring, as usual, avoiding the necessity of the person lighting thelantern holding the globe in its upper position while lighting the lantern, and at the same time does not prevent the easy movement of the globe from its upper to its lower or using position.

I claim as my invention-l 1. The combination, with the supportingtube D, and with the cap Csliding thereon, of

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' springcatch L, upright arm I, having shoulder .Land the keeper M, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination f the tube `D,cap C, Io spring catch L, upright'arm I, having shoulder J lfind head 1, keeper M, and spring H, substantially as s hown and described.

FERDINAND MEYROSE.

In presence of- GEO. H. KNIGHT, EDW. S. KNIGHT. 

